“[FILE NOT FOUND]”
CLEARANCE GRANTED… WELCOME, AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL…
FILE NOT FOUND
INSPIRED BY SCP-029 BY TheDuckMan [CC BY-SA 3.0].
WRITTEN BY Joshua Alan Lindsay [CC BY-SA 3.0].
The voice of the Database was provided by Joshua Alan Lindsay.
The voice of Dr. Sczech was provided by Oktober Crow.
The voices of the Agents were provided by Lisa Hogan and Brittany Carlton.
(typing)
(notification sound)
File not found.
SCZECH: (frustrated sigh)
(slower, more careful typing)
(notification sound)
File not found.
SCZECH: “What the hell.”
(slow, deliberate typing)
(the door quietly opens and closes. She does not notice.)
SCZECH: “…zero, two, nine. Enter.”
(notification sound)
File not found.
SCZECH: “Oh, come on!”
(furious typing)
(notification sound)
Command syntax not recognized.
SCZECH: “The fuck it’s not.”
(begins typing again. Alarm in the hallway begins to sound.)
SCZECH: (groans) “NOW what?”
(she gets up from her chair and goes to the door)
SCZECH: “First my pass doesn’t work, then the coffee’s cold by the time I get to the break room, then Ron nearly knocks me over trying to get to the elevator…”
(she opens her office door to look into the hallway. A response team is moving past. One agent stops at her door.)
AGENT: (urgent) “Dr. Sczech, have you seen——”
SCZECH: (annoyed) “No, I haven’t seen anything.”
AGENT: “…Okay. Who else is in there? Who were you talk——?”
SCZECH: “Nobody’s here, I was talking to myself.”
AGENT: “Oh.”
(someone calls to the agent from further down the hall. The agent begins to move along.)
AGENT: (to Sczech) “Well, if you see SCP——”
SCZECH: “Yeah yeah yeah, I’ll call you guys over if I see anything, I have work to do.”
(she closes the door and types a code on the pad beside it.)
SCZECH: (sighs) “It is too early in my shift for this.”
(a heavy bolt is heard locking the door securely from the inside. She leans against it.)
SCZECH: “Dr. Bright is going to kill me.”
(she makes her way back to her desk)
SCZECH: “I’d rather he kill me than hit on me in his creepy new howler monkey body or whatever the fuck.”
(she sits down, sighs, takes a sip of her coffee)
SCZECH: (pitifully) “Why does the coffee have to be cold.”
(she takes a moment, breathes, centers herself)
SCZECH: “Alright, let’s troubleshoot this bitch.”
(she begins typing again, the muted sound of the alarm still present in the background, its urgency lost in her office space. Movement is heard behind her. She does not notice.)
SCZECH: “Oh, my syntax was wrong.”
(she hits Enter)
An .ftxt file with the name “scp-029” was deleted from the database 23 minutes and 7 seconds ago.
SCZECH: “What the fuck, why?”
(she begins typing again. Footsteps are heard behind her. She notices. She stops, turns around.)
SCZECH: “Is someone there?”
(silence. She sees no one. She returns to her work and finishes typing the command.)
The file was last accessed by Dr. Ronald Parnell.
SCZECH: (uneasy) “Ron? What is going——”
(she is suddenly grabbed from behind, an unknown hand over her mouth and an arm squeezing tightly into her trachea.)
(after a brief struggle, her neck is snapped and her body collapses onto the keyboard)
(the agent pounds on the door from outside)
AGENT: “Dr. Sczech, we need to speak with you.”
(the assassin runs to the wall, quickly removes the grate off an air vent, and escapes through it.)
AGENT: “Dr. Sczech, are you there? Please release the door! Dr. Sczech!”
E N D O F F I L E
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Episode released 5‑Jul‑2019
Source(s): Original script
Author(s): Joshua Alan Lindsay
Based on Rev.: n/a
N/A (original script, which replaced SCP-029 in its entirety.)
